DIY Wire Wrapped Stone Ring

Hey there, Heather Boyd Wire here. Today, we're going to make these beautiful wire wrapped rings. They're very easy to make with crystals and copper wire. The rings were inspired by my friend Patrick, and you can see we did a collab video together to make this beautiful bracelet. I'll link that up below. Patrick's from What's Up Montreal, and we do a lot of fun collabs together. So for these rings, this one actually is a stone that has a hole through the stone, so it was very easy to put the wire through and just wrap it around. And then these two are done in the style I'm doing today with the copper wire wrapped around. So what you're going to need for this project are flat pliers, round pliers, cutters, your artistic copper wire. I use 20 gauge. You can use a little thicker, up to 18 or 16 gauge. I have a stone here. This one I bought from Crystal Dreams in Montreal. They also have an online shop, and I have a cone, and I also have a video on how to make your own ring cone if you don't have one, and I'll link that up below, too. So I always like to cut my wire too long, then too short. So I cut about two feet of wire, and we're going to actually start by creating the round form that goes around your finger. So with the cone, you're going to put it, wrap it around. Some of these cones actually have measurements to tell your ring size. So if you are going by your ring size, you'll want to go a little bit larger than your ring size because you're going to wrap the wire inside this ring, which will make it a little bit smaller. So what you can do is just wind it around, try it on the finger that you want, make sure it's a little bit loose. And then I start by holding this in place and just take this wire, loop it through like that. OK, so this will give you your starting point to secure that in place. You can even loop it through twice if you like, just to make it a little more secure. And then at that point, you can try it again and make sure it's still nice and loose. Loosen it up if you have to. To loosen it up, you just push the wire in a little bit. And then what we want to do is just take your stone, see about what diameter you need there, and then you just hold this in place and wrap this end in there a couple of times. So this is just going to give you a nice, solid starting point to wrap your stone and to have like a little platform for the stone. So we'll wrap that around like that. And I try not to use the pliers too much because you don't want to scratch it, but you can pinch these down a little bit if you want to. I would never use the pliers that have the teeth because that's going to really scratch up your wire. So we have this starting point and we're going to take our stone and I'm not going to lie, this part is tricky because the stones are pretty smooth. You can actually get more jagged, unfinished, unpolished stones that are easier to do. And so we're going to hold this on to the wire and you want to just wrap it around. So we're going to kind of do a crisscross over one side a couple of times like that. And don't worry if it slips a little bit, you can just play around with it. OK, so we'll go up through the top and then to go to the bottom, you can actually put it through the ring form like that, pull it through, wind it around the other side at the bottom, and you want to make sure it's not too much space there. OK, so we've wound it a couple of times at the top and now we're going to wind it around the bottom a little bit. OK, and then back to the top, you want to go back up and then back through the ring again, and then you really want to catch it underneath the stone. So we're going to go up from underneath. When you use the thicker wire, it's a little more, it's a little easier because it will hold more in place. But with the thin wire, you really want to wind it quite a few times so it's going to stay. OK, so we're going to go like that and then we're going to just finish this end off. We're just going to wrap it around like that and then we'll clip it with the cutters. And then this side, this is where you go and look and see where the rock might pop out and you want to use your wire on the other side to make sure it's really secure. So we'll go down here, down underneath, through the ring again, and then down again to that corner. And then that should do it, just doing it that way. Like that, and then it would be a good idea to twist it on the opposite side over here. So go like that and then just give it a little pinch. So now for the finishing touches, you want to put it on your ring form like that, push it down as far as you need to, and you can adjust this part around a little bit. And now if you need to tighten the wires, you can actually get your round pliers and just see where you want the wires to sit so you can push it down there. And then if you need to tighten it, just take your pliers, hold the wire like that and just give it a little, little twist, but not too much because you don't want the stone to pop out. So we'll do the same thing and you could even, it's pretty soft, so you could push it in with your thumb as well. And here too, if you need to just adjust it a little bit, you can do that. But like I said, don't twist it too much or the stone is going to actually pop out. So once you've done that, you can just make sure the size is good. And there you go. And to make sure there's no little raw ends, you can just pinch those little ends in like that so they don't poke into your finger. So thanks so much for watching the video. Give it a big thumbs up if you liked it. Be sure to subscribe to my channel for lots more DIY wire art and jewelry videos. 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